"Torture Memo" Author John Yoo Responds to This Week's Revelations
John Yoo, former Justice Department official and author of the "torture memos" used to provide the legal justification for how the U.S. interrogated captured terrorist suspects, defends his actions.
In his first interview since the release Tuesday of a 2003 memo he authored providing legal authority for the use of aggressive interrogation techniques by the U.S. military, John Yoo denied to Esquire that his memo applied to soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan or that it authorized the kinds of abuses that were revealed at Abu Ghraib. "I did not think as a matter of policy that it was a good idea for the military to use aggressive interrogations of the kind ... Full Story »
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